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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1708: *DX and station news about: Abkhazia, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Congo, Congo DR, Cuba, Europe, Germany, Greece, Hawaii, Indonesia, Italy, Korea North non, Korea South, Malaysia, Mongolia, North America, Perú, Russia, Rwanda non, Sarawak non, USA, Uruguay, Yemen SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1708, February 13-19, 2014 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2201 WTWW 9475 [confirmed] Fri 0426v WWRB 3195 [confirmed at 0427] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0030 WRMI 9495 [confirmed 1707 from last week] Sun 0030v WTWW 5085 [confirmed] Sun 0501 WTWW 5830 Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1400 WRMI 9955 [on northwest antenna] Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1709 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS HAVE RESUMED starting with #1701: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcast&view=feed&format=raw&Itemid=156&lang=de OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ABKHAZIA. February 2, 2014 observed at 31 m "Auto Radio" on 9535 kHz at 1115-1125 UT. Anyone can tell, this radio station there permanently or can radiohuliganit someone? (Michael Bykhanov, Krasnodar, Apsheronsk, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX Feb 9 via WORLD OF RADIO 1708, DXLD) Usually at this frequency from Sukhumi Abkhazia Radio operates on weekdays. After he graduated from their programs they broadcast Autoradio. But on Sunday there was no transmission (Dmitry Kutuzov , Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", ibid.) According to my observations Avtoradio constantly activated after R. Abhaziya (Alexander Golovihin , Togliatti, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", ibid.) A few years ago, “Govorit Sukhumi” ("Says Sukhumi") was on the air from 3, 7, 11, 14 and 17 hours in the summer. Since November, there was a message that they enjoy 9535 kHz and apparently they probably live in 11 hours, several days a week - have to check tomorrow, Friday. Very often at the end of transmission immediately continue with "Autoradio" (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria / "deneb-radio-dx", ibid.) Apsua Radio, Abkhazia / Abkhaz radio news 0430-0444 1350 kHz on 30 January (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, RusDX Feb 9 via DXLD) Monitoring. February 7, 2014 "Radio Abkhazia" 1350 kHz: From 0435-0440 was broadcast in Russian. The theme of the passports. Identify failed. There was a strong interference from the transmission in the Turkish language. According to the frequency plan is the "Voice of Russia". Transmitter of Armenia. HF 9535 kHz also monitor the entire plot **** -9 kHz and failed to take "Radio Abkhazia." (Rx: Degen-1103. Ant: The horizontal wire. Length-15. Merov. (Vasily Lazarev, Samara region, village. Outfits Sancheleevo, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via RusDX Feb 9 via DXLD) ** ABKHAZIA [and non]. GEORGIA, Apsua Radio observed on January 30 as follows: *0355-0603* UT on MW 1350 kHz featuring news in Abkhazian at 0400 UT, at 0500 and at 0600 UT and news in Russian 0430-0440 UT. Till 0503 UT under Gavar's powerhouse of V of Russia in Turkish and it seems the transmitter is with more power than 5 kW and location maybe is not in Abkhazia - often the Sukhumi signal is stronger than from Gavar (Rumen Pankov, BULGARIA, Feb 5 for wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 6 via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 9400, Sedaye Zindagi, 1507 Feb 1. OM with talks in Farsi. Many mentions of Afghanistan and Iran. Some QRM from a possible DRM source (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, not posted until Feb 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. According to the FCC Website, KRSA-580 went silent in January 2013. At that time the station told the FCC: “The station no longer has the financial resources to continue operations. The station is trying to reorganize its finances.“ There’s more info in the following article: http://www.kfsk.org/2013/01/10/southeast-alaska-christian-radio-station-off-the-air/ It doesn't sound like KRSA will be returning. Confirmed still silent by Walt Salmaniw while at Haida Gwaii in January 2014 (Bruce Portzer, WA, IRCA DX Monitor Feb 1 via DXLD) ** ALASKA. 9615, KNLS Anchor Point, 1002-1012 Feb 10 English; Usual format with pop-like religious music, IDs and features including brief mailbag program and "Stories from the Bible" at tune-out; poor-fair at best (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AMSTERDAM ISLAND. 14185-USB, Feb 9 at 0114, presumed FT5ZM awarding 5s & 9s to quick contacts, not bothering to mention his own call or location, just QRZ and on to the next one who gets thru the pileup. Here often overcome by clueless co-channel callers, causing others (pilots?) to interject ``listening up 5``, as this DX-pedition is probably about to dismantle. I sought here after first hearing pileups circa 14190-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FT5Z, AMSTERDAM ISLAND. The FT5ZM team continues for a few more days. It was announced by Ralph, K0IR (via Pilot Station NV9L), on February 3rd, "We will start taking down Antonelli on the morning of the 12th (our time). Mataf will function some during the 12th, but we will be QRT sometime on the 12th (our time)." It was also announced on February 5th, the FT5ZM team hit 100k QSOs. Remember that the FT5ZM log is now available on ClubLog at: http://www.clublog.org/charts/?c=FT5ZM The breakdown as of as 1244z, February 9th, 152493/QSOs and 34165/Unique (Modes - 86036/CW, 57974/SSB and 8483/RTTY). By Continent: 1248/AF, 18/AN, 33890/AS, 75496/EU, 37899/NA, 2506/OC and 1436/SA. QSL via N2OO. The FT5ZM QSL processing order is as follows: a. OQRS DIRECT (via ClubLog) c. OQRS bureau (via ClubLog) b. DIRECT MAIL d. Regular incoming BUREAU For more details, see their Web page at: http://www.amsterdamdx.org Also, watch their media links at: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/FT5ZM Twitter - https://twitter.com/FT5ZM (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1149, February 10, 2014, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) [non]. Looking for FT5ZM Amsterdam Island, nominal 24955-USB on penultimate day on air, but Feb 11 at 2257 only hear a modest pileup on 24945-USB including KB1WH; and at 2307 someone working an HL5 on 24945-USB. Said they would start dismantling Feb 12 http://www.amsterdamdx.org/new-pictures-from-amsterdam-island/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4949.751, R Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos very tiny and lowest modulation at 0408 UT Feb 9 (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 9, wwdxc BC- DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, University Network; 1925, 8-Feb; PastorMelissaScott.com spot into rock music bumper into PMS Bible analytical stuff. I bet that's a real snoozer to the fire & brimstone folks in her flock. SIO=4+33 with co-channel Arabic QRM--probably Algeria via France; // 13845 via WWCR (presumed) at S30+ (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 6060, RNA, 09/02 0001 UT. Transmisión del partido de fútbol entre Racing y con SINPO: 53453 con QRM de varias emisoras no identificables // 750 LRA7 RN CÓRDOBA; SINFO: 33333 // 910 LRA23 RN SAN JUAN, con SINFO: 54454 // 780 LV8 R. LIBERTADOR (Mendoza) con SINFO: 53453. Y otras repetidoras del interior o emisoras pertenecientes a RTA. 15345, RNA, 09/02 0023 UT. Programa "Los caminos de Pacho O´Donnell" hablando sobre Artigas en la historia de la Argentina con un historiador uruguayo. SINPO: 55555 // LRA 1 870 con SINFO: 44343 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglistas yg via DXLD) Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Denmark has been on an extended visit to South America, and writes an article for Feb BDXC Communication about Radio Nacional/RAE which he visited. Summary of main points: it`s in an old but well-maintained building. His visit is during a Friday afternoon live broadcast of RAE`s English service at 1800 UT. Hostess is Mirian Turkula, who is an Argentinian, and like many colleagues, a trained translator. She is content to translate and read copy written by three journalists. RAE`s objective is not to broadcast anything critical about Argentina, but some negative news creeps in. Almost all the broadcasts are done live, including the two different English transmissions at 1800 and 0200 UT weekdays. English department receives about a dozen letters a month from listeners, fewer than before (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1708, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA [and non]. Se pueden ver las QSLs tanto de Radio Liberty como de Radio Atlántico del Sur en este sitio: http://www.tdt-latinoamerica.tv/foro/archivos-desclasificados-radio-atlantico-sur-t10482.html Fíjense que la QSL de Liberty está firmada y sellada por Edgardo Matute Bravo. 73 de (LW3ESH Federico Tomasczik, Feb 10, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** ASCENSION. 7325, Feb 10 at 0632, BBC Hausa has a humbuzz and unstable carrier (before 0630 it`s French via Woofferton here) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SPAIN [and non] ** AUSTRALIA. Imaginary RA Shepparton DRM schedule from DRM site: http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=Site,UTC 0100-0300 daily 19000 - Pacific 40 R. Australia AUS English 0700-0900 daily 7410 - SW Pacific 40 R. Australia AUS English 0900-1100 daily 9475 - SW Pacific 40 R. Australia AUS English 1100-1300 daily 6080 - West Pacific, PNG 40 R. Australia AUS English 1300-1500 daily 9890 - Pacific 40 R. Australia AUS English 1500-1700 daily 5940 - SE Asia 40 R. Australia AUS English 1700-1900 daily 9475 - SE Asia 40 R. Australia AUS English The first time I checked this last week, it was updated as of 27 Oct 2013, but as of 16 Feb 2014, it`s updated to 14 Feb 2014 --- yet STILL showing the above imaginary info, as political pressure from non-DRM digital modes for domestic broadcasting in Australia - DAB – has prevented R. Australia from ever implementing this DRM schedule. Most of these frequencies remain on air in AM mode, perhaps ready for the switch to be flipped. Meanwhile to the uninformed, this makes DRM look more important than it really is; note the nominal reduced power level of 40 kW (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Kununurra Tech Problems --- 17760, HCJB - Perhaps this should be called "Constipated Kununurra" because it seemed to be having technical difficulties getting its signal out when first noted at 0145 for its Hindi service. Lots of random broken transmission, often off for 20 seconds and then on for 2 seconds. Monitored this for around 30 minutes but it never got any better. Unusual because this outlet seems to have been reliable in the past. Good level signal strength when it was there, Feb 7 (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, Feb 7, ARDXC mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1708, DXLD) [later:] From the HCJB Kununurra Broadcast Technician: *Broadcast Report 07/02/2014* --- This morning's broadcast suffered lots of interruptions because of a combination of tuning problems and a rare case of transmitter control malfunction that inhibits proper alarming. We would usually catch this problem when working out there, but with the creek in high flood this is not possible. * affected programs: Rawang (raw), Duhdim Nun (cnh), Hindi (hin), English (eng), Nepali (nep), Marathi (mar), Gujarati (gui [sic]) * UTC lost broadcast time: 1 hour 50 minutes (0030-0220) * target area: South East Asia Via Shelley at HCJB Global Aust For international DXers following this post, at this time of year the far north of tropical Australia receives its major rainfall - usually 100's of millimetres every week, and the occasional cyclone. The place becomes awash with water! The creeks mentioned above become raging rivers! We hope Kununurra doesn't get washed away! Wink 73's (Rob VK3BVW http://www.medxr.blogspot.com 0625 UT Feb 7, WORLD OF RADIO 1708, ibid.) 15340, Feb 10 at 1429, S Asian music and talk, no English ID circa 1430 but no doubt HCJB Reaching Beyond Kununurra, scheduled to switch from Urdu daily to Bengali Mondays only. Audible because RHC is missing again from this morning frequency. BTW, there may be technical problems at HCJB-Au since they advise Rob Wagner, ARDXC that ``the creek is at high flood`` now in the peak heavy rainy season in far northern tropical Australia (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1708, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. Logs 30-1-14: 9677, Talish, 0916, grabbed audio, fair (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saturday, February 8, 2014: Voice of Justice, Voice of Talyshistan and Ictimai Radio on new 9677.45 V of Justice/V of Talyshistan/Ictimai Radio on new 9677.45, ex 9677.6 Voice of Justice was noted on Friday, Feb. 7 1400-1435 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri. Full schedule: 0600-0635 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Wed/Sat 1400-1435 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Tue/Fri Voice of Talyshistan was noted on Saturday, Feb. 8 1200-1300 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh. Full schedule: 0900-1000 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Mon-Sat 1200-1300 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Mon-Sat 1500-1600 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Mon-Sat Ictimai Radio was noted on Saturday, Feb. 8 1300-1403 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri (Ivo Ivanov, Observer 3:18 PM, Bulgarian DX blog via DXLD) Later for DX Re Mix News revised slightly to: V of Justice/V of Talyshistan/Ictimai R. on new 9677.45/30, ex 9677.6: Voice of Justice 1400-1435 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Friday, Feb. 7 Full schedule is: 0600-0635 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Wed/Sat 1400-1435 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Tue/Fri Voice of Talyshistan 1200-1300 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Saturday, Feb. 8 Full schedule is: 0900-1957 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Mon-Sat [-0957!] 1200-1257 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Mon-Sat 1500-1557 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Mon-Sat Ictimai Radio 1300-1403 9677.45 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Saturday, Feb. 8 1100-1157 9677.30 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Sunday, Feb. 9 (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #837 via WORLD OF RADIO 1708, DXLD) ** BAHRAIN. 9745-USB, tentative R. Bahrain, Abu Hayan, 0343-0402 Feb 12 Arabic; Weak at tune/in with continuous Arabic music; even weaker with brief announcer at ToH and into more music; pretty much unusable after that (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. I’ve been enjoying Bangladesh Betar in the evenings with fair-to-good reception at times on 7250 kHz from 1715 to 1900 UT. The last half hour of most transmissions feature western pop music – mostly oldies. For example, 20 January I heard Michael Jackson: “Thriller”, Rockwell: “Somebody’s Watching Me”, UB40: “Red, Red, Wine”, Duran Duran: “View to a Kill”. All good songs, but I would prefer to listen to more traditional Bangladeshi tunes during this slot. I cannot ever imagine their neighbours at All India Radio or Radio Pakistan playing such music! (Alan Roe, Listening Post, Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Feb 07 1238-1248, 25332, English, News and Bangladesh music, ID at 1243 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELIZE [and non]. 21305-USB, Feb 6 at 1520, German-accented V31TF is ``listening 5 up``. Says he`s on vacation in northern Belize by the Mexican border; makes some contacts but says will QSY to 12 or 10m for better propagation. I had also noticed much more ham activity on those bands than 15 for some reason, tho Spain was in well enough on 21610 and 21630, Kuwait barely on 21540. (A German in Germany was audible on 24960-USB in a pileup (for FT5ZM, nominal 24955?), DL0AZ.) Yes, he`s German, per illustrated setup at http://www.qrz.com/db/V31TF V31TF Belize Torsten Fechner Liegnitzerstrasse 7 85221 Dachau Germany DXpedition of DG7RO to North-Belize, Consejo Shores, Corozal District (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.661, Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, (presumed) 0050-0100 Feb 11, Noted a threshold signal here with Spanish comments fading in periodically, but not steady. Signal is very weak and comments are almost impossible to hear. At 0056 believe I hear music. At 0058 possibly a female comments. Nothing heard after 0100. 5952.424, Emisora Pio XII, 0215-0230 Feb 8, Noted a very weak audio signal with music. No other details heard at this time. 6134.84, Radio Santa Cruz, 0200-0215 Feb 8, At tune in noted a program of music until 0204 when a canned is presented by a male. "... Santa Cruz ..." This is followed with a live monologue using the echo effect. At 0206 tradition music with flutes is presented. Signal remained at poor level (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, Excalibur, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6134.85, Radio Santa Cruz at very good strength, 0916 5 Feb – commercials and ident as “Escuche Radio Santa Cruz, la primera”. (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, New Zealand – AOR7030+ and EWEs to North, Central & South America, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Broadcasters Push AM Migration "The U.S. radio industry is not the only one exploring ways to help AM broadcasters. Brazil radio observers expect their government to publish a decree in November detailing an optional migration process for AM radio to the FM band. In cities where the FM spectrum can?t accommodate new channels, it will be necessary to extend the spectrum using television Channels5 and 6..." Continued at Radio World: http://www.radioworld.com/article/brazil-broadcasters-push-am-migration/222179 (via Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, NRC-AM via DXLD) Am trying to look at the bright side here. If they are expanding FM down to "TV channels 5 and 6", what exactly does that mean? If they mean the same allocation as we have in North America, I believe that would be down to around 78 MHz. Might this provide some opportunities for DX from North America? It's too far for even double hop E-skip, but what about other modes? F2? Trans-equatorial scatter? (Earl Higgins, MO, ibid.) Channel 5 starts at 76 MHz. How about triple-hop Es? It`s remotely possible, and I suppose slightly more likely below 88 MHz. F2 never gets up that hi. TE scatter certainly works all thru the FM band, and would here too, but geographically never reaches above the Caribbean (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4754.8, R. Imaculada, 0019-0030 Rosary read by M and W. Took a quick break with music bridge once then continued with the Rosary. Had a religious song after the Rosary with W vocal. Was able to // to the webstream which was 5 seconds behind. When I came back at 0215, this was gone. Pretty far off-frequency. Fairly good signal this evening. (31 Jan.) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Hard- Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4774.97. R. Sora de Congonhas. Caught end of canned announcement by M at 2252 tune-in, then discussion with laughing and live music (just guitar and singing). Same announcement at 2300 as at 2252. I've heard this same program from them before. Really nice signal at tune-in. (2 Feb.) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Did they axually say ``Rádio Sora``? I thought that was just an editing mistake for the full word Difusora (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4875.086, Rádiodif. Roraima, Boa Vista RR, National Anthem at 0400-0403 UT, then close-down (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 9, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Novos testes DRM / EBC / 5990 kHz Notícia sobre transmissão DRM a partir do Brasil em OC: http://reddit.com/r/shortwave http://alokeshgupta.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/new-drm-testing-in-brazil.html http://www.drm-brasil.org/content/ebc-realizar%C3%A1-teste-de-ondas-curtas-drm-em-2014 Ná confirmação da data, ainda. --hg (Huelbe Garcia, PU3HAG, 11 Feb, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Ná = não há, there is no. Viz.: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 New DRM testing in Brazil will begin soon. At this time the "Empresa Brasil de Comunicação - EBC" is testing a 4 kW AM transmitter in 6000 kHz, from Brasília - Distrito Federal. This same transmitter will be used in tests with DRM30 digital radio in Brazil. More details: Monday to Friday Transmitter with 4 kW power - LEMSA solid Time of 9:30h to 15:30h (Brasília - 2h UT) or 1130 to 1730 (UT) [note: Brazil goes off DST Feb 16! so time will then presumably shift to 1230-1830 UT --- gh] Freq: 6.0 MHz Mode: AM - PDM Azimuth of 244 degrees from Brasília [WSW!] The information can be sent simultaneously to the following emails: Noe Cesar Santana - noe.cesar@ebc.com.br Ismar Valley (coordinator transmitters) - ismar.vale@ebc.com.br __________________ Plataforma Brasileira do Digital Radio Mondiale http://www.drm-brasil.org Amostras de áudio de algumas rádios DRM: http://www.zandomenego.com/ataliba/drm Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/atalibazf http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1972&page=6 ---- Good news, EBC (the Brazilian public broadcaster) detailed their plans for the SW trial. They'll use a Continental Lensa transmitter at power levels of 4 kW, 1 kW and 250 W with the antenna at Brasilia beamed to Amazonia (beamed to the north [sic]). They made reception prediction using VOACAP and the expected coverage with be the centre and part of the north of Brazil at 4 kW. They'll start testing the tx in AM mode in a few days at 6000 kHz. Also, as soon as possible, they'll change the crystal to 5990 kHz (EBC's Radio Senado frequency) and install the DRM30 exciter. ; ) Best regards, Rafael Diniz (Via drmna yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1708, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6080, Radio Marumby, religious talk in Portuguese at 0840 20 Jan and full ident with frequencies at 0859. Good reception (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, New Zealand – AOR7030+ and EWEs to North, Central & South America, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6104.69, R. Filadélfia. 0916 soft talk by M in Portuguese, Father Jadir Jacinto according to their sked. Sounded like a het here too but there wasn't anyone else on the frequency until 0926. 0925:20 M with website, then into lively ZY religious pop, then a slower song at 0928. // to their webstream which was 9 seconds slow. (1 Feb.) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6134.90, Rádio Aparecida, strong in Portuguese, 0824 19 Jan with popular music, time checks, jingle idents, parallel to 9629.79 very good, 11854.9 weak under Chinese and 5035 poor. 6135.77, Rádio Aparecida here 6 Feb, strong signal at 0708. They were missing on 5 Feb but I did note a strong open carrier on 6135.85 at 0829 past 0917 which may have been their transmitter (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, New Zealand – AOR7030+ and EWEs to North, Central & South America, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6136.68 [sic], R. Aparecida. 2332 pleasant MOR ZY vocal song, ad block at 2335, music bridge, then live M DJ starting with ID and talk. Way off frequency // 5035.003, 9629.657, and 11854.845. (7 Feb.) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Did he mean 6135.68?? (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9586.33, Super R. Deus é Amor. Decent carrier at 2340. M preaching at 2343. Some canned announcements mixed with music. A tremendous amount of adjacent QRM from 9585 and 9590. // to the webstream which surprisingly had almost no delay. (7 Feb.) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 9665v, Feb 10 at 0636 tune-in, audible despite het caused by its offfrequencyness, altho not pinpointed this time, jingle ID as ``a melhor estação, Rádio Voz Missionária``, then Brazilian version of ``Feste Burg`` hymn. Surely not the best station when it comes to frequency accuracy, presumably still on the low side. BTW, HFCC B-13 shows *nothing* on 9665 between 05 and 09, tho anyone turning on a radio will hear this --- because Brasil, surely the major nation besides the US with private broadcasters all over the ISWBC bands from 6 to 11 MHz, refuses to protect them by registering in HFCC; and because, as per Aoki, the on-frequency hetter at this hour must have been another shunner of HFCC (or vice versa?), KCBS P`yongyang, which is on 9665 for 22 hours a day, 50 kW, non-direxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11735, R. Transmundial. No audio present at around 1015 when first tuned in. Strong signal. Finally audio on at 1023:18, then going off and on for a few minutes and then staying on. Canned announcements with website info, etc. (6 Feb.) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11780, Rádio Nacional noted back on nominal frequency at 0526 on 4 Feb after wandering up to around 11783 – I last measured them on 11783.26 at 0555 on 28 Jan (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, New Zealand – AOR7030+ and EWEs to North, Central & South America, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 11915.2, R. GAUCHA. 09/02 2021 UT. Dos locutores hablan sobre futebol brasileño, el Barcelona de España y del transporte público de São Pablo. SINPO: 54454 con leve QRM de BSKSA en la misma frecuencia (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglistas yg via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. Radio Bulgaria, which I also mentioned last month, has, since 13 January, scaled back its daily offerings. They do have a brand new website, which I have to say looks great, but unfortunately the daily webcast is reduced from about an hour to about 30 minutes each day, although some extended features can be found on the website which do not form part of the daily webcast. The archive of Daily Webcasts can be located by clicking on the “Listen” link at the bottom of a Daily Webcast page. The website is still “work-in-progress”, so this may become clearer in future. Also, you will need to use Internet Explorer or Google Chrome in order to skip forwards/backwards through a broadcast in the audio player – the controls do not currently work in Mozilla Firefox (Alan Roe, England, Listening Post, Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** BURMA [non]. 6225, pos[itive?] DVB after 1505 Feb 1, seems they continue to transmit (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, not posted until Feb 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 630, CFCO, Chatham-Kent ON; 11:35 AM...12:50 PM, 4-Feb; Country 92-9 Question of the Day -- What's more attractive, a pickup truck or a sports car? At Blenheim Chevy, you can get your truck equipped with a gadget that vibrates your seat when you get close to an object! Is this a good idea? Seems to me that this might encourage tailgating. "The Noon Farm Show every weekday at 12:10"; spots for the Ontario Forage Council, the Middlesex soil & frost update & the Food & Vegetable Convention. No obituaries! 12:30 CFCO Trading Post -- no guns or pets. C&W lyric, "You might as well let your hair down, I can take it from there." (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CIWW 1310 Ottawa was reported in MN on the NRC DX Tips list last night. They've been doing this a lot when I've been at my Burnt River ON site, and have also been reported by others as far as MO and MN (NE?). They were huge here in Toronto last night. 1280 Montreal has also been reported as considerable distances, and I've also noticed it unusually dominant at Burnt River. But I'm not sure if these two are regulars at night, as I've been in Toronto for the past week and here for two more before returning for another round of DXing. But I am thinking of calling their engineering heads. First, though, I need to know: 1) How far out they are making it AT NIGHT, WELL EXCEEDING THEIR NIGHT PATTERNS, WITH GOOD SIGNALS. And HOW FREQUENTLY (Saul Chernos, Ont., Feb 6, NRC-AM via DXLD) Hard for me to tell about CIWW, since I'm only 7 km away from their transmitter site, and squarely in the boresight of both their day and night patterns. Their signal level should bump up a bit when they switch to night pattern, so I'll check tonight and see if I can see any difference. CFMB has definitely been staying on day pattern at night lately. Their nighttime DA is an in-line 6-tower configuration with a very tight pattern to the NNW. I'm due west of them, and they should be inaudible here at night, but lately they've been dominating the channel. You can see how they'd have an incentive to "forget" to switch, as their night pattern would provide very poor coverage of the 'burbs to the east and west of Montreal, and along much of the the south shore. > 2) Are any OTHER Canadian stations doing the same? The most blatant example that comes to mind is CJVA-810 in Caraquet NB. Their night pattern throws virtually all of their signal to the NE, since they're required to provide a high degree protection to co- channel Class A WGY. And yet, they bomb into my location, 860 km to the west of them, night after night, sometimes even topping WGY (only 320 km from me). Again, they have a strong incentive not to switch: their daytime ND pattern provides good coverage of some large populated areas to the west (i.e., around Bathurst NB), which would be lost completely at night if they switched to their nighttime DA. On the other hand, they have an FM simulcast that covers these areas, so one wonders why they would bother to cheat, or indeed why they bother to keep the AM on at all. In any case, I have no hesitation in saying that they cheat, since this has been going on for many years (Barry McLarnon, Ottawa, ON, NRC-AM via DXLD) I can definitely confirm 3 errant canadian stations. CKDM 730 [Dauphin MB] is straight north of me and should normally be weak and easily nulled but is just as strong and unnullable as in the daytime. This has been going on for many months. CKLQ 880 [Brandon MB] is straight south of me and is weaker at night than it used to be and I can frequently hear KRVN underneath when speech is being broadcast. It used to be too strong for anything else to be heard on this frequency. This condition has been ongoing for at least 2 years. CJDC 890 [Dawson Creek BC] frequently interferes with WLS 890 here and comes in quite strong in WLS fade outs. This has been noted for many months now. WLS used to be all alone on this frequency (Kenneth Nawalkowski, Sandy Lake, MB, Feb 7, IRCA via DXLD) ** CANADA. CFRX is Back on 6070! Nice to see these guys back, now someone needs to tell Arnie Coro to move Cuba off of 6070! (Chris Lobdell, MA, 0200 UT Feb 12, BADX via Stephen Wood, MA, DXLD) Got them here too. Trading dominance on frequency with Cuba (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass, 0209 UT Feb 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1708, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Chris Lobdell and Stephen Wood in MA report that CFRX has just reactivated on 6070. Unfortunately, Arnie had RHC take over the frequency between 00 and 05 starting Nov 11. N Korea might be a lesser problem in the 0900-1250 period. Glenn Hauser, UT Feb 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Even mix here (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, 0348 UT Feb 12, ABDX via DXLD) Re CFRX Toronto: Yes, noted in NY, Edmonton-Alb-CAN and CA-USA remote units at 0730 UT. Footprint 6069.964 kHz on lower sideband. S=4 in NY and CA, but stronger in Edmonton-Alb-CAN with fluttery S=7-8 (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 12, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6070, Feb 12 at 0642, CFRX is back! with talkshow, mostly YL, but heavy ACI this semihour from 6075 Vatican. That should lessen as spring approaches and disappear in A-14 with VR probably moving back up to 7250, at 0530. Tnx to Stephen Wood in MA for tip earlier Feb 12 that it was back on, but so is Radio Habana Cuba, which glommed onto the frequency shortly after CFRX crashed a few months ago, still scheduled 00-05 UT in Spanish. In the meantime, CFRB stopped running comedy overnight. Here`s the Wednesday schedule in EST [UT -5] from http://www.newstalk1010.com/schedule.aspx 12:00 AM - 2:00 AM Humble & Fred 2:00 AM - 4:00 AM Loveline With Dr. Drew & Mike 4:00 AM - 5:00 AM The Week in Review with John Tory 5:00 AM - 5:30 AM The Early Edition with Robert Turner 5:30 AM - 9:00 AM Adrienne Batra & Peter Shurman 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Jerry Agar 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Beyond the Mic with Mike Bullard 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Jim Richards Showgram 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Live Drive with John Tory 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Friendly Fire with Ryan Doyle and John Downs 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM The Late Shift with Bill Hayes IIRC, Mayor Ford is no longer welcome at CFRB, but how about his brother? I suspect they really have news on the hour and perhaps other times, ignored above. Next check at 1437 UT Feb 12, could not detect a carrier, which should have been possible even in daytime. Would those closer to Toronto confirm whether it`s still on the air in daytime? Yes, Wolfgang Büschel did with remote receivers which were still getting CFRX at 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1708, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: And at 19 UT weak signals at Edmonton-Alberta, KY, NY, Rochester. S=6 with AGC off, no NR, no AVG. Police report on victims given at 1900 UT, interview about aid credit, to pay 30.000 dollar medicine bill. Footprint seems little less approx. 6069.959 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1708, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. CUBA: 6070, Radio Habana Cuba; 0419, 0523, 12- Feb; Hoping to catch CFRX reported back on the air, but only heard "imperialismo" this & "imperialismo" that. No obvious co-channel signal. Aoki shows them off at 0500 & EiBi at 0600 which is apparently correct. No sign of CFRX reported back on here. (Frodge-MI) 6070, CFRX Toronto (Mississauga transmitter) ON; 1511-1525+, 12-Feb; "In-depth Radio, News-Talk 10-10" call-in program about drunk driving; Jessica Baker with Time-Saver traffic at 1517--Bayview closed for sink-hole repair; spot for Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport--no mention of an NDB. SIO=454- fady; // 1010 CFRB barely audible but detectable //. 2001, 12-Feb; newstalk1010.com spot into local news; items about Ron Ford demonstrators. SIO=354- peaks with fades. // 1010 CFRB now much better than during 1500. 2305, 12-Feb; TSB 1-50 Sports Update into Live Drive. SIO=4+54 & 1010 CFRB now slightly better. Too much Habana during 04 & 05 & nothing detectable during 06 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note: It seems that "The Late Shift" (which is on only four days a week) has a different host each day Monday - Thursday. Their weekend schedule differs greatly from that on Weekdays. In any case, once Cuba leaves SW on the 49 meter band (after 06 UT mostly), I may actually have a chance to check it out during the Humble and Fred show or one show beyond (Shawn Fahrer, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hey! CFRX 6070 is back on the air! Yea! We missed you! (Karl Zuk, N2KZ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non?]. 11232-USB, Feb 7 at 0005, ``King 70`` is repeatedly calling Trenton Military. I read her fine but Trenton only replies several times that ``last station calling, you are off- frequency``. Well, she`s not, as far as I can tell; however, there is a continuous light carrier on same, not enough to turn off the BFO. Once she has to spell her trans-gender tactical callsign. After a few tries, she apparently gives up. There are just a few previous logs of King 70 in the UDXF yg archive, and it seems she gets around. One of them was with Trenton here on 2 May 2006: ``0204Z 11232.0 KING 70 (HC-130) p/p via TRENTON MILITARY to KING OPS with ops normal report -- Mark, Monitoring Milcom from Charleston, SC`` Al Stern had King 70 on a USAF MARS frequency, and also on a Cape Cañaveral frequency, so is she American? First, the most recent log: ``13927 kHz USB 1655z: USAF MARS Operator "AFA1RT" (So New Hampshire) wkg "King 70" (HC-130P #65-0970, Patrick AFB 920RQW) for radio check only. (11/Nov/2013)(Al Stern, Satellite Beach FL)`` ``10780 kHz USB 2110z: Cape Radio wkg "King 70" (C-130, Patrick AFB) for radio check; then encrypted comms. (06Feb2010) (ALS) AL STERN Satellite Beach FL`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC [non]. R. Ndeke Luka: UNIDENTIFIED 17500 ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC [and non]. BBG RESPONDS TO CRISIS IN C A R http://www.bbg.gov/blog/2014/02/07/bbg-responds-to-crisis-in-central-african-republic/ (via Clara Listensprechen and Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** CHECHNYA. Re bcdx: ``RUSSIA Chechnya's state broadcaster launched on 1287 kHz`` Years ago I understand, when the two new TRAM 50 transmitters (the other one for 657 kHz, used by what a Voice of Russia employee called a decade ago "a trifle" and further on "our national broadcast") had been commissioned (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Feb 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. 620.4, R. NORTE VERDE, 10/02 2121 UT. Vía Ovalle. Yerbatero da concejos de remedios caseros y promoción de jarabe chino en envase amarillo. A las 2131 se inicia la feria de novedades en su segunda edición animada por Ezequiel Domínguez, con música pop y romántica en castellano, además de saludos y avisos a personas de diferentes localidades limarinas o de que se encuentran en las veraneadas cordilleranas. SINFO: 44454 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: La Serena, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHILE. 820, R. PORTALES-CORPORACION, 10/02 0522 UT. Vía La Serena. Música cristiana contemporánea. SINFO: 55555. Espurios: 923-928; 1065-1068; 1294-1298; 1639-1644 // 95.1 MHz sin dúplex (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: La Serena, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) A local for him, the problem? (gh) ** CHILE. 1110, R. LA FRONTERA, 07/02 0349 UT. Música romántica ochentera, junto a pensamientos y poemas. Ferrita en dirección sur-este. SINFO: 43333 con poco QRM de R. La Ciudad de Argentina (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Es de Temuco, no? (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentnina, ibid.) Hola Slaen: Efectivamente es Frontera de Temuco. Años sin escucharla, aunque lamentablemnte nunca habló de Temuco. Ni tampoco cerró con su característica en mapudungun. Saludos 73 (Galaz, ibid.) Gracias! Yo la había visitado en ocasion de ir a Temuco en 1989. Esta y la desaparecida en OC Radio Esperanza. No sabía que Frontera cerraba en lengua local. Muy interesante. 73s (Slaen, ibid.) AM 1110 Radio la frontera, Temuco Chile Versus LS1 Radio de La Ciudad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUcNHr37W5Y (José A Kucher, Argentina, Feb 7, ibid.) 1110, R. LA FRONTERA, 08/02 0401 UT. Música romántica ochentera en castellano, junto a pensamientos y poemas leídos por un locutor. Ferrita en dirección sur-este. SINFO: 33333 con periodos largos de fading y poco qrm de R, La Ciudad de Argentina (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHILE. 1460, R. ARMONIA, 09/02 0535 UT. Vía Concepción. Programa "La luz de Cristo" con reflexiones bíblicas acerca del compromiso social del cristiano con SINFO: 43333 con algo de QRM de tipo "mosquito en el garaje" de ¿R, Palabra Viva? Posiblemente, aunque ésta se encuentra en 1458 o cerca de ella, y Armonía en 1461 o cerca. Es decir + 3 kHz aprox. (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglistas yg via DXLD) ** CHILE. 12365-USB Partido Futbol --- Cooperativa en modo usb con U de Chile versus Guarani. Por acá SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, Chile, 0001 UT Feb 7, condiglista yg via DXLD) 12365-USB, R. COOPERATIVA, 07/02 0001 UT. Transmisión del partido de fútbol entre Guaraní de Paraguay y Universidad de Chile, en los defensores del Chaco. SINPO: 55454. Desde las 0020 en adelante con fallas en la modulación (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1708, DXLD) CLAUDIO GALAZ : 12365 kHz USB SPORT RELAY FEEDER FROM CHILE 12365 kHz USB SPORT Futbol RELAY FEEDER MILITARY Amigos: Repetidora de Radio Cooperativa de Chile en modo USB con el partido Taça Libertadores de America 2014: Universidad de Chile versus Guarani Paraguay desde La Asuncion Paraguay Atuando no estádio Defensores del Chaco, em Assunção, a Universidad do Chile venceu o Guaraní-PAR, pelo placar de 3 x 2. Com o resultado, La Universidad entra no Grupo 5, ao lado de Cruzeiro, Defensor-URU e Real Garcilaso-PER. Por acá SINPO: 55454. [via Dario; not clear whom he is quoting, but must be a Brazilian, not Galaz] It seems only Libertadores Cup matches with Chilean team will be rebroadcast on feeder : http://esportes.terra.com.br/futebol/libertadores/ http://www.centralbrasileirao.com.br/libertadores-da-america Next play 13 February at 2200 local time Chile (UT -3 hours) 1900 UT == [You mean 0100 UT! -- gh] Universidad de Chile Futebol - Universidad de Chile>